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Monday December 16, 2024. 08:01 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The European Union is forging ahead with plans for a constellation of internet satellites to rival Elon Musk-owned Starlink, after signing a $11.1 billion deal to launch nearly 300 satellites into low- and medium-Earth...
Arctic Wolf has acquired Cylance, BlackBerry's beleaguered cybersecurity business, for $160 million -- a significant discount from the $1.4 billion BlackBerry paid to acquire the startup in 2018. From a report: Under the terms of the deal, which is expected to close in...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google announced it's rolling out ChromeOS M131 to non-beta users, bringing with it a handy 'Safety reset' feature that lets Chromebook users reset their laptops without totally wiping them. The update also introduced a new 'Flash...
Apple is preparing a series of major design and format changes to its lineup of iPhones and potentially other products, according to WSJ, a bid to revive growth after years of offering largely incremental upgrades. From the report: Starting next year, Apple plans to...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son will announce a $100 billion investment in the U.S. over the next four years during a Monday visit to President-elect Donald Trump's residence Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, sources familiar with the matter...
One in five adults in developed nations demonstrate primary school-level literacy and numeracy skills, according to an OECD study of 160,000 people across 31 countries released December 10. The decennial Survey of Adult Skills reveals declining literacy rates over the past...
This month Bill Gates recommended four books about making sense of the world, including The Coming Wave, by Mustafa Suleyman. Gates calls it 'the book I recommend more than any other on AI — to heads of state, business leaders, and anyone else who asks — because it offers...
'Envy the lumberjacks, for they perform the happiest, most meaningful work on earth,' the Washington Post wrote almost two years ago, after analyzing more than 13,000 journals from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' time-use survey. (For the first time the surveys asked...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Computerworld: Microsoft has announced Phi-4 — a new AI model with 14 billion parameters — designed for complex reasoning tasks, including mathematics. Phi-4 excels in areas such as STEM question-answering and advanced...
Does space need environmentalists, asks the headline from a new article in Noema magazine. 'As astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson notes, the first trillionaire will be made in space. 'But amid such promising developments are worries among some scientists and...
They provide training data to top AI companies including OpenAI and Meta, according to its web site. Founded in 2016, San Francisco-based Scale AI now has over 900 employees, eventually growing beyond 'unicorn' status with over $1.35 billion in ivnestments. In May the...
Sunday December 15, 2024. 11:23 PM
Saturday night two men were arrested near Boston 'following a hazardous drone operation near Logan Airport's airspace,' according to a police statement. They credit an officer 'leveraging advanced UAS monitoring technology' who 'identified the drone's location, altitude,...
A 19-year-old wrongfully accused of using AI told the Guardian's reporter that 'to be accused of it because of 'signpost phrases', such as 'in addition to' and 'in contrast', felt very demeaning.' And another student 'told me they had been pulled into a misconduct hearing —...
Launched in 2013, itch.io lets users host and sell indie video games online — now offering more than 200,000 — as well as other digital content like music and comics. But then someone uploaded a page based on a major videogame title, according to Game Rant. And somehow this...
The non-profit, free certificate authority Let's Encrypt shared some news from their executive director as they approach their 10th anniversary in 2025: Internally things have changed dramatically from what they looked like ten years ago, but outwardly our service hasn't...
'In a tiny handful of places...' Wired wrote last month, 'you can find yourself flanked by taxis with no one in the drivers' seats.' But they added that 'Granted, practically everyone has been numbed by the hype cycle.' Wired's response? '[P]ile a few of us into an...
Researchers used Canada's national synchrotron light source facility 'to analyze a new type of lithium-ion battery material — called a single-crystal electrode — that's been charging and discharging non-stop in a Halifax lab for more than six years,' reports Tech Xplore. The ...
Witcher 4's first trailer debuted at the 2024 Game Awards — a six-minute cinema-quality thriller. It's a teaser for a game that 'aims to be the most immersive and ambitious open-world Witcher game to date,' according to an announcement from CD Projekt Red. The trailer is...
'A man is accused of several felony charges after he allegedly posed as an Uber driver and then stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency from customers in Scottsdale,' reports Arizona news channel Fox 10. 'Prosecutors have called it an 'extremely...
'There are concerns human rights will be breached,' reports the BBC, as Wales police forces launch a facial-recognition app that 'will allow officers to use their phones to confirm someone's identity.' The app, known as Operator Initiated Facial Recognition (OIFR), has...
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